qlogic firmware license

2005-07-07 Thread Andres Salomon
Hi, QLogic just emailed me the wording of their new license for qla2xxx firmware. Please let me know if anyone sees problems with this. Copyright (C) 2003 –2005 QLogic Corporation [QLA2x00] This program includes a device driver for Linux 2.6.x that is distributed with QLogic hardware specific

Re: qlogic firmware license

2005-07-07 Thread Andres Salomon
On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 15:13:47 -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: > Hi, > > QLogic just emailed me the wording of their new license for qla2xxx > firmware. Please let me know if anyone sees problems with this. > > > Copyright (C) 2003 –2005 QLogic Corporation [QLA2x00] > > This program includes a de

Re: qlogic firmware license

2005-07-07 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
Andres Salomon wrote: > > USER ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT USE OF THIS PROGRAM WILL NOT > > CREATE OR GIVE GROUNDS FOR A LICENSE BY IMPLICATION, ESTOPPEL, OR > > OTHERWISE IN ANY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (PATENT, COPYRIGHT, > > TRADE SECRET, MASK WORK, OR OTHER PROPRIETARY RIGH

Re: qlogic firmware license

2005-07-07 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 07 Jul 2005, Andres Salomon wrote: > On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 15:13:47 -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: > > USER ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT USE OF THIS PROGRAM WILL NOT > > CREATE OR GIVE GROUNDS FOR A LICENSE BY IMPLICATION, ESTOPPEL, > > OR OTHERWISE IN ANY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGH

Re: qlogic firmware license

2005-07-07 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 15:13:47 -0400 Andres Salomon wrote: > Hi, > > QLogic just emailed me the wording of their new license for qla2xxx > firmware. Good, thanks for dealing with this issue! :) > Please let me know if anyone sees problems with this. > > > Copyright (C) 2003 –2005 QLogic Cor

Re: qlogic firmware license

2005-07-08 Thread Andres Salomon
On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 01:59:25 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 15:13:47 -0400 Andres Salomon wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> QLogic just emailed me the wording of their new license for qla2xxx >> firmware. > > Good, thanks for dealing with this issue! :) > >> Please let me know if anyo

Re: qlogic firmware license

2005-07-08 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 12:01:14 -0400 Andres Salomon wrote: > On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 01:59:25 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > > First of all, it's the "GNU General Public License", otherwise > > they're referring to a non-existent license... ;-) > > > > Yea, someone else caught that as well; I e

Re: qlogic firmware license

2005-07-10 Thread Andres Salomon
On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 01:11:46 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 12:01:14 -0400 Andres Salomon wrote: > >> On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 01:59:25 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] >> >> The reason for the dual licensing is because they have OEMs that would >> need to re-qualify (that may b

Re: qlogic firmware license

2005-07-10 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 16:50:53 +0300 Andres Salomon wrote: > On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 01:11:46 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > > > On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 12:01:14 -0400 Andres Salomon wrote: [...] > > > So, by > > > dual-licensing, the OEMs can continue using the driver and > > > firmware under the GPL (inv